Hunch cofounder Caterina Fake has signed agreement to leave the company before the end of the year, we've learned from sources.

Technically, Fake will remained involved with the company as an "advisor." But that'll just be PR. Though she may sometimes rep the company in the media, her day-to-day work with the company will end.

Ironically, Fake herself best described the reason she's leaving the company in a post she wrote last week explaining why she isn't leaving the company.

Hunch has pivoted. We’ve gone from being a consumer destination site based on user-created topics, to a taste-graph driven platform for partner sites.

The things I’m good at are building communities, participatory media, places where people contribute things of their own making.

The second major reason Fake is leaving the company is that her personal relationship with Hunch cofounder Chris Dixon reached a breaking point earlier this year. We understand the relationship has since grown cordial, but irreparable.